Sam460 on its way to Canada!

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Yep, I finally did it, ordered a SAM460 from Acube a few minutes ago  

Why? why not?   In fact I sold my fully loaded A4000 in 1998 and since all I had to play with was UAE and its no fun to me...  Lately I wanted to get another A4000 just for fun but its so expensive for old technology that I'd rather buy a brand new product using "modern" hardware.  

Already have a case, HDD and compatible SATA card waiting for the motherboard to arrive.

I'll make sure to let everybody here know when I'll have it running.

cheers!

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Got a new job I like and ordered a sam...its what I call a "good week"

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According to Acube I had to order it this week to make sure its here for christmas.  Being a while since I listened to my xmas mp3 list on AmigaAmp

I admire MorphOS for what it does and what it became but its just not what Amiga stands for me.  I hope OS4 will have a long life and that we'll see more modern machines.  The X1000 would have been my #1 choice but my budget is limited to about $1200 espescially that I don't think I would do much more with the X1000 because of the "strict" available software situation.

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Don't worry I didn't perceived your comments as discrediting OS4.  I personally don't care much for this supposed war.   OS4 will feel like wearing a good ol' comfy pair of wool socks

I considered getting a compatible mac with Morphos for a little while (and might do later this year) but I wanted to show my support to Acube and Hyperion as well as getting back the fun of using an Amiga.  

For many years I have used or owned all the windows versions since 3.1, a couple of MacOS machines and many Linux flavors but none has ever re-ignited that little "flame in my eyes" that I had with my 4000.

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@maw2k
I'm in Montreal and i'll surely bring it to an event in the area (if any) to share my joy

@duce
I'll be glad to run some benchmarks for you

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Yep, seems I'm one among many that ordered a 460 lately

Updated news:  UPS states that my sam460 will be delivered monday! yay!  

Funny tho I've ordered a couple of things from AmigaKit the same day but they aren't here yet.  Cheers to Acube for fast service

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My SAM460 was delivered today, i'm over excited but too tired to install it...what a life

Review and pictures soon on a.org!

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Got my Amigakit order friday, now i'm all set.  Everything went like a breeze.  Putting the motherboard in the case was easy except that my stupid ATX power connector was a 24 pin full so I had to cut out the last 4 and had to open a hole on the audio connector to make it plug on the sam board.

OS install was as easy as 3.1 used to be but at least it vanilla OS4 is cute and colourful.

Next step is to install update 3 since the internet connection setup obviously worked since I am posting this with OWB on my shiny new SAM460